The Falmouth ArtMarket features music by Dawna Hammers on Thursday, August 4, at Falmouth Marina Park, 180 Scranton Avenue. The ArtMarket is open every Thursday through September 1, offering fine arts and crafts from 11 to 5 PM, a Book Booth featuring local authors from 11 AM to 2 PM, and musical entertainment from 2 … Continue reading
Falmouth Jewish Congregation welcomes the public to an author talk on Thursday, December 13 at 1 PM with acclaimed New York Times bestseller novelist Jenna Blum. This event, which includes a book sale and signing handled by Eight Cousins Bookstore, is part of Falmouth Jewish Congregation’s participation in the Jewish Book Council’s Author Network, which brings authors to … Continue reading
The Woods Hole Public Library will begin the new season of its Social Justice Book Club in late June. The book club was formed in the summer of 2016 by summer resident Ruth Gainer who is continuing to lead the group and its discussions this year as well. All the books chosen for the group focus on … Continue reading
Arts Alive, the three-day celebration of the arts in Falmouth is coming again on the third weekend in June, the 16th through the 18th. Shore Street Extension will once again become an avenue of tents—a colorful bazaar of handcrafted arts from around the Upper Cape. In the large tents on the Library Lawn over 50 … Continue reading
Etching by Joan Tweedell The Falmouth Art Market opens for its sixth season today, Tuesday, June 26, at Town Hall Square, in front of Falmouth Town Hall on Main Street. The art market will offer fine arts and crafts, musical entertainment, and community information from 2 PM until dusk every Tuesday afternoon through August 28. … Continue reading
December 16, 2011 Book Review Cynthia Riggs’s new book, “Victoria Trumbull’s Martha’s Vineyard Guide Book,” is a treasure for anyone who has read and enjoyed her mystery novels about Victoria Trumble, a 92-year-old poet and sleuth who is slowed only slightly by her advanced age. It will also be appreciated by anyone interested in Martha’s … Continue reading
December 9, 2011 “Riding on Duke’s Train” introduces young readers—and older ones, too—to a world of magic, not one of wizards and werewolves, but of music, specifically the jazz of the 1930s and ‘40s: the jazz of the incomparable Duke Ellington. Mick Carlon’s new book, just published by Leapfrog Kids of Falmouth, provides an intimate … Continue reading
November 5, 2009 It is a time to liberate oneself from one’s inner critic and inner copyeditor, and freely explore writing, instead of putting it off until you have “time.” It is also a social endeavor, a competitive venture with friends and strangers down the street and around the world, thanks to the nanowrimo website … Continue reading
June 14, 2009 When I heard that Ann Hood was coming to Falmouth to talk about her book, “The Knitting Circle,” I was intrigued and got the novel out of the library to read. “The Knitting Circle” is about Mary, who loses her 5-year-old daughter Stella suddenly to meningitis. Crippled by grief, she is encouraged … Continue reading
Notes on The Arts 